In late April (26-29) April Conan Doyle records a stay of four days at Cromer. Dickson Carr (p. 179) refers to a four-day visit to Cromer in March of that year which Conan Doyle made with his friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson. It was on that occasion that Robinson (the dedicatee of The Hound of the Baskerville) began talking of the legends of Dartmoor.